On the one hand, we’re doing pretty good: even with the pandemic, the world is better today than any point in the past. On the other, we have monumental problems during what appears to be a turning point for our species and this planet.

So where does that leave us? Somewhere in the middle, a place in which nuance and critical thinking and awareness matter.

We must organize on a global scale, across class and borders, if we are to maintain our successes and accelerate our solutions. We can rise to the moment before us, but it’ll take everything we’ve got—that only shows it’s worth it.